동아시아 가족정책의 변화

Change of East Asian Family Policy: Focused on Japan and Taiwan

This paper analyzed the change of East Asian family policy, which focuses work-family reconciliation policies in Japan and Taiwan. For the 1990s, fertility crisis in Japan and Taiwan have pushed the state to expand the family policy and governments have played active roles in providing childcare services and promoting work-family reconciliation. The findings are summarized as the followings. Childcare services are not sufficient to lessen of women s childcare burden. And parental leave is not gender-neutral. Women’s labor force participation rate and gender wage differentials still largely exist. East Asian countries expanded its narrow and traditional view toward care within the family policy to include the difference between the labor market and women. And there has been considerable expansion in the work-family reconciliation policies. However the traditional gender contract of the male-bread winner family model is still remained.